(Vienna, 29.09.2020) Caroline Hutter, MD, PhD, loves to solve tricky puzzles. One of them is Langerhans cell histiocytosis – a disease of which almost nothing was known until a few years ago. Hutter not only…
How to save lives: Caroline Hutter maps a rare childhood cancer entity
"Conquer childhood cancer with an army of upgraded immune cells!"
(Vienna, 21.09.2020) Priv.-Doz. René Geyeregger, PhD, is taking full risk on a promising research project. Because this is often the only way to create something groundbreaking. Something that helps children with cancer who no longer…
Dream Job Childhood Cancer Scientist: "Always a step ahead of the tumor"
(Vienna, 14.09.2020) Sabine Taschner-Mandl, PhD, aims to achieve a long-term benefit for children with cancer via research. She heads the Tumor Biology group at St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute and, on the occasion of…
Childhood Cancer Neuroblastoma: Not only DNA, it´s also the age that matters
(Vienna, 09.09.2020) Scientists at St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute provide an important new insight in neuroblastoma, the most common solid tumor in infants and young children: the influence of genome alterations on the course…
Cure Childhood Cancer? Challenge accepted, says Prof. Heinrich Kovar
(Vienna, 07.09.2020) Prof. Heinrich Kovar PhD, heads the Molecular Biology of Solid Tumors group at St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute. He was one of the Institute’s founders and its scientific director for 17 years.…
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: „We want to give children with cancer a chance.“
(Vienna, 01.09.2020) Childhood cancer scientists are creative minds who have one big goal: Saving lives. We asked scientists at St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute (CCRI) how this could be achieved even better in the…
Science that makes a difference: „Because I love, what I do”
(01.09.2020) Dr. Eleni M. Tomazou, PhD, heads the research group "Epigenome-based precision medicine" at the St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute. On the occasion of the Childhood Cancer Awareness Month September, she talks about what…